What to do? Advice?

Lintel

Lintel

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We have a 5 month old GSD, lovely natured and very friendly as you'd expect at 5 months old!
Our front garden shares a wall with our neighbours back garden. Said neighbour has two dogs who are out a lot, their land is higher than ours so their dogs are able to jump over to our garden- but never do!
However..
Since we brought puppy home at 10 weeks old one of the dogs has been very aggressive over the wall, hanging it's head and paws over, snarlingtm teeth bare and barking. Puppy was never too bothered and could not reach the dogs anyway (wall is about 4 foot at our side from ground).
Now puppy is older and reacting(barking and jumping) he can nearly reach the dog and I fear he could grab the dog when he is hanging over, pull him into our property and injury himself and the dog.

So where would I stand legally if this were to happen?
Clearly I want to prevent this so I'm thinking of getting the flimsy 6 foot fence panels to put along the wall where the dogs can reach each other?
Any other options, what would you do?
 
I, too, would fence your garden securely and ask your neighbour to do the same. In fact I would have asked the neighbour to stop their dogs hanging over the wall long ago. Our garden is like Fort Knox, so that the Rotties can't get out. One neighbour did ask if we were keeping deer!
 
I’d fence the garden and make sure you spend time training your pup not to react through the fence. My dog has been terrorised by the dog next door. She eventually reacted and would leap at the fence biting it. There are lots of videos online of how to train them to ignore provocation.
 
have the dogs ever met on neutral ground? I understand there might be a reluctance if one seems aggressive but you might find it solves it. you could fence it and still have issues although I would want good fencing anyway.

the next door farm collie used to come over here -mark everywhere and generally upset our setter with much growling etc on both sides, especially when the setter was in the house. we couldn't really stop the collie doing it as he was just hopping over the stock fencing or over a 5 ft wall, he was entire and had always done it but once they met on the lanes it all stopped and they got on fine after that.

Our back garden now has a brick wall ranging from 3'6 to 4'6 with stock fencing all around the top to level the total height to 6ft.
 
Usually a specific party is responsible for each partition. For example, we are responsible for the fence on the left of our garden, our neighbours on the other side are responsible for the fence on the right hand side.

You probably need to check who is responsible for which side first. If you put a fence up and it is your neighbour’s responsibility, they could just take it down again.

If you check first and then speak to your neighbour you might be able to split the cost. If you find it’s your responsibility though your neighbour might refuse to contribute.

I think the responsibility will be marked in the deeds of your house. There’s a bit of legal info here: https://thecrimepreventionwebsite.c...the-uk-law-concerning-fences-walls-and-gates/
 
I think I’d get a dog meet organised. Walk them together on the lead with both owners between them to start with. We had a big issue with the neighbour’s son’s dog, which is the one that attacked Zak in the woods one day for no reason. Totally changed Zak’s behaviour towards other dogs.

Even if you put up a six foot fence, could the neighbour’s dogs get over? I’d rather have them meet so there’s no stress and ridiculous barking at each other.
 
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